Introduction
CHAPTER 8
:-. PROPHECY OF THE IRRUPTION OF THE ASSYRIANS, IN PUNISHMENT FOR ISRAEL'S APOSTASY, IDOLATRY, AND SETTING UP OF KINGS WITHOUT GOD'S SANCTION.
In :-, Judah is said to multiply fenced cities; and in :-, Israel, to its great hurt, is said to have gone up to Assyria for help. This answers best to the reign of Menahem. For it was then that Uzziah of Judah, his contemporary, built fenced cities (2 Chronicles 26:6; 2 Chronicles 26:9; 2 Chronicles 26:10). Then also Israel turned to Assyria and had to pay for their sinful folly a thousand talents of silver (2 Kings 15:19) [MAURER].
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